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uO TILtAN CASS HE IS
ROT RESPONSIBLE
R DISPENSARY iiIAFT
Ho Maintains That Tinkering With
the Old State Dispensary Ls^w by
the Legislature Has Been the Cause
of the Official Corruption that Fin
ally Destroyed the System.
The following letter by Senator
TilUmaan to W. H. L. lcLaurin of
Latta, is given to the press as Sena
tor Tillman's defense and explanation
of the oft-repeated charge that he is
responsiale for the corruption which
is beileved to have been bred by the
dispensary system:
Trenton, S. C., Sept. 28, 1912.
Mr. W. H. L. McLaurin, Latta, S. C.
Mr. Dear Sir:-Your letter of Sep
tember 11 came in due course of mail
and I have read it several times very
carefully. You say, "We oonce le
ycu every honesty of purpo3. but the
-facts stand out against you, too plain
to deny.. that you are the paternal
ancestor of -both the dispensary and
Bleaseism. Both of these 'isms' will
be handed down in history when you
and 1 :haye both been gone to the
judgment, as the greatest curses in
the history of our great common
wealth. And I am. sincere in saying,
senator, that you will have no great
er sin to~answer for in- that great
day than the two mentioned above."
As there are two counts in yoar
ndicment against me, I will dispose
of- the -dispensary indictment first. I
may dispuss the one about Bleaseism
ater,-although I have alread pointed
-out the difference between Bleaseism
ad Tilmanism.
Agreat many people in South Car
ln. have been taught and believe
eligiousiY that I am responsible for
th dispensary law, and hold it
gaEst me as a crime against the
people of the State. I did originate
the law and to that extent am re
Ssponsible. But many people still be
lieve it the best whiskey law ever
conceived. The law as it was written
by me and enacted by the legislature
provided that the governor, the'attor
n ey general and the comptroller gen
eral should ex-officio constitute the
State ;oard of control, and perform
all the duties of the board, to wit:
buy the-supply of liquors for the dis
pensary, appoint the dispensers, and
In every way superintend the busi
cess. I made a thorough study of the
whiskey business from start to finish
and found out about its manufacture,
niaa pulation and adulteration. I
resd everything I could get on the
subject, made inquiries of distillers,
wholesalers an' retailers, Investigat
ed bottling works, au 'u out all
ahout- the mansufacture of beer, how
it is brewed, and how whiskeys are
biendetor mixed. I learned that co
' lognte sirits or deordorized' alcohol
t basis of nearly all liquors sold
'ma this country; and I was perhaps
the best posted man on the subject
"" is the State. -
. Did Work Well.
-The law worked well under this
zC system, and there was no just or
seven reasonable complait of corrup
tion while I was In the governor's
omce. There were, of coure, char
ges of rebates; and there will always
* be charges against an unpopular law,
and those who administer It. Men
*will always flnd something to comn
- pan of. The barroom element and
their friends fought 'the law bitterly.
-anid they received ald and comfort In
avery marked degree from the "anti
-'Til~manites," solely because of their
HJpltical animosity. So bitter was the
factionalnsm In 1892 and 1894 that I
-could do nothing right, no matter
how hard!I tried. My enemies werie
.ways lying in wait to pick flaws
and find fault. Not a scIntilla of
evidence was ever produced to show
that I ever got rebates; and only the
meanness and venom of my political
- enemies led to the accusations being
made. I retorted on my accusers that
-they thought I stole because if they
2had had the chance I did they would
hare done so, and they could not
-possibly conceive how a man could
be honest under such tempation and
* .pportunities. I epilained that the
reason I did not collect for the State
- the rebates allowed by the Mill Creek
Distilling Company, from whom I
-bou'eght many thousands of dollars
worth of whiskey and other liquors,
that I did not want to have anything
toi do with rebates. The Mill Creek
Distilling company had credited the
-State, and sold it over $75,000 worth
of liquors, largely on its confidence In
my personal integrity. I agreed with
M-. Hubbel of the Mill Creek Distill-t
*ing comupany- that the company should
get all the rebates allowed by the
trist, as a bonus for Its liberality in,
credit .the dispensary never could'.
have started, as only $50,000 had
bee~n appropriated by the legislature,
-and- nearly all of this was spent in
t'.rng up the agricultural hall to run t
the business.
Tjhe law was being fought very bit-C
.ytin the courts and otherwise.t
KThe bitterness was produced and kept
alive by the howling of The News and
Courier and The State newspapers,
-mainly, and the others yelping in
' chorus. So bitter was the feeling In
-the State, and to such a high degree
^of- passion had the newspapers fan
nied the flame of opposition to the di
- .iensary, that It led to the Darlington I
-riot. Factionalism was so bitter at
tbhe time of this riot that civil war 1
between. the townspeople and- the
country people seemed imminent.
- Changed the Law.
When I left the governor's offie
Sthe machinery of the dispensary hadr
not been fully eo.mpleted or tried.
SThe experiment was a new one in this 1
county and every one predicted fail
are.. When I prophesied that the
whiskey business rightly managed
would bring a' million of dollars as
revenue to the State, I was laughed T
at as a.lunatic. As soon as I went
out of office the new legislature
which came In with Gov.. John Gary
Evans began to tinker with the law.
- t changed the ex-officio board of con-r
- rol to one to be elected by the gen- a
oral assembly itself. The State board E
Sof control elected by the legislature ~
soon began to be talked about by this
saine bunch of newspapers. It was i
mtotoriously-known all over the State y
that when Hub Evans, who was a ~
candidate for a position as a member t
of the beard, wan asked if be would ~
steal. he boldly proclaimed, so the r
rvuor went, he would steal the doors
-d the State house if he got a chance. ~
or something like that. Yet the leg
Iiature elected him to the board of
control with this declaration pro
claimed opeuly' and braeanly from ~
the housetops. While the legislature ,
did elect somre clean and honest men,
things with the dispensary went from ~
bad to worse until the stench becagne
so g-eat that the people rose In their
vrth and destroyed it as a State in
stitution. *
seven counties:per annum has reach-1
ed the enormous sum of $2,500,000:1
in round numbers. The prohibition'
wave which swept over the State has
so far subsided that blind tigers are
to be found everywhere, even in these
diagensary counties. They have al
was-existed' in Charleston, though I
had won the fight against them after
the Darlington riot, and only the dec
laration by the supreme court that
the law was unconstitutional kept -
them alive.
I will recapitulate for your benefit
and quote from my last message to
the general assembly:
The Law Unconstitutional.
Two weeks after the Darlington
riot the supreme court, to the sur
prise and disgust of a large majority
of the people, declared the act of
1892 unconstitutional. The effort to
enforce the law of 1893 had brought c
on riot-riot had resulted in blood
.hed and insurrection; but the law
had triumphed and order been ,
promptly restored, so that we had
every reason to feel, and, in fact. 4
:here was every evidence to show, t
:hat the fight was won, and men were t
ready to yield obedience and cease to
>bstruct the law-not willingly, but
rom necessity and fear. I had by i:
proclamation taken control of the
nunicipal police throughout the 0
state, under section 519, G. S., and a
ordered constables to confine them- t
elves to seizures of liquor in transit, p
and to watchin'g the authoritis of ;
the towns and cities. Conferences
were held with the mayors of those c
nunicipalities where the illicit sale of I
iquor had been most flagrant, and $
sverything pointed to a satisfactory 4
olution of the vexed question, and a
iulet and ef'cient co-operation be- a
tween the constables and the police .
.or the enforcement of the law. But,
alas! All my work of nine months t
was undone in an instant. The whis- a
key dealers, who had closed their c
doors or were preparing to, quit or f
'eave the State, opened up their bars a
in grand style. Bonfires were kin
ded in Charleston and a triumphal '
procession, headed by a wagon con- s
tamning a whiskey barrel, garlanded e
with flowers, paraded the principal
Streets of the city. The opinion by 3
the court was illogical and strained,
nd so muddy that no one knew or 4
reuld say just what was the status D
astablished by it. In a supplemental 9
3ase bfought before them, the two e
judges who had united in the decis
ion declared that the act of 1892 was
all a dead letter, except the provision J
prohibiting the issuing of licenses;
that we had In effect prohibition, 3
rick-ribbed and steel-hopped.
While the decision was on the act
of 1-892, .1 knew the same general
principles underlay both acts, and
that if one was unconstitutional the 3
,ther must be also. I therefore or
lered all the dispensaries to be clos- U
ed, stock to be taken and all accounts
:o be adjusted as soon as possible.'
As two dispensaries were broken "
Into and robbed the night after, I or- '
iered the dispensers to sleep in them -
ud a ~d the State's property, and
>fered em one-half pay for this
ork and for the responsibility under
:heir bonds till the matter was finally "
3isposed of. I fully anticipated a
!se being brought under the act of e.
1893 and a decision of like nature to
he first, and as I had put forth all
ny energies to make men obey the e
aw, I felt compelled to obey it my- (j
elf-although I felt, as did most of 9
:be people. that the decision was an
>utrage and the result of partisan r
ias. It would take too much time '
dspace to give my reasons for this 1
vpinion, but I will mention that the
'udge of the United States court and ~
lye of our eight circuit judges had
'ustained the constitutionality of the
aw,' and the supreme court itself in eI
he Chester case had declared it was
Spolice regulation and not a revenue
neasure. N
To Thwart the Court.
,But 'while I obeyed 'what I thought
was the law under the decision of the
ourt, I resolved to thwart the court
f I could, and, every effort was put y,
orth to prevent the act of 1893 from ~
~oming before the court as - it 'as
~hen constituted. In the meantime ,
we had a 'whiskey deluge. During th'
period from July 1, 1893, when the
lispensary law went into effect, to
April 21, 1894 'when it was suspend
ad, 277 United States retail licenses
rere issued. In the time the dis
ensaries were closed, April 21 to Au
rust 1, 1,174 were issued. All the
'ld dealers, those who had left the
ate and those who remained, laid in
'ocks. 'Men who had never sold li
ior went into the business and at
svery town, hamlet and crossroads. ~
Lmost, whiskey culd be bought with
1c effort at concealment.
Left Too Soou.
I left the office of governor too
toon. If I had contmuued in control.
:here is no doubt I would have had tl
be law amended to prevent the pos
ibility of fraud In tfle purchase of T
rhiskey and the odium therefrom.
The peculiar thing about the mem
ers of the State board elected by the P
egislature is this: The general as- -'
embly never went outside of its own T
nembership except In one or two in- P
tances. It is a p-ave reflection on W
he people of the State that so man'
egislators who were alleged to be -i
orrupt have been chosen to con-1uct at
he affairs of the dispensary. It Is
sotorious that after vainly'trying to
Iestroy the dispensary by popular
ote, its enemies only succeeded in
tilling It when they put dishonest
nen In control. When it was too late
.o change the law, as my observation'
~ad taught me it ought to be chang- '
d, I never could get a law enacted to
revent the purchase of whiskey fro- '
>reeding corruption. I drafted twe at
pills, but could not aet them nessed '4
-found that as senator I did not of
~eild as much influence with the
~tate legislature as I had as govern
r. Besides. the Prohibitioniists were
a arms agaInst amending the law to
erfect It, feeling convinced if the s
orrutlon continued, as they hnd 01
eason to believe it alreadv evisto? 1
be law would be destroyed In the o~
nd. as it was. I am firmly convinced. w
yen now. that a law can be framed
rich will absolutely prevent the
ossiility of any rebate of fraud on
he State. Had the dispensary been
aft n control of an ex-nfilio board.
uch as it started out with, it is not
elevable that the people of South 0
arolna wouild have ever eeted an 3
ttornerener-al. a comptroller-een- 'T
ra1 and a governor who would hara
eomtted fraud on the people. and ,.e
obbedl thema as the legislative hoa-d
: aid to have done. It is a pitifc1
efection on the Integrity and char
eter of the neonle of South Carolin 1e
hat legislature after lee'isiatu~re fr"'-o"
mont Its own membershin elected th,
en so corrunt as to make the dE-~ ?
ensary a by-word and a hissing. o
'hey and mot I are responschle for 4
he dicgrnee brought on Ro'ith Car
lina by the disnensarv sean~als.
Those who chanted the law as it
ras orirlnally passed are to blame
er all the corruption that has mark
d the disnensary exneriment in the tl
tate control of whiskey.t
Please let me know when you have -
end this whether you still consider sa
'e reenonsible for the disgrace fl7
"ot1ol't en sonth Co-olIne hv the dis- rit
'0 ELECT WOODROW WILSON TO
THE PRESIDENCY
XPENSES ARE HEAVY
hough the Managers of the Cam
paign Practice All Possible Econ
omy, it Costs a Large Sun. of Mon
ey to Run a National Campaign on
Legitimate Lines.
The Democratic national commit
)e, -through Henry aIorgenthau,
talrman of the finance committee,
is issued an appeal to the supporters
f the party to aid in raising an addi
onal fund of from $750,000 to
900,000, to be used in the campaign
r the national ticket from now un
1 election day. Accompanying this
ppeal was a list of many of the re
nt contributors and statistics show
ig how much each of the States had
ontributed. Approximately $300,
00 has been contributed up to date.
ad of this amount $206.086 has
een disbursed for the legitimate ex
-nses of the campaign, leaving about
84,000 now in the treasury.
New York state heads the list of
ntributors with a total of $105,
85; Pennsylvania is second with
19,516, and Illinois third, with $15,
53.
In speaking of the need of more
Toney to carry on the campaign, Mr.
Eorgenthau dictated this statement:
"It is absolutely essential that all
e states complete the organization
f their finance committee-our
eeds are imperative-as we require
>r necessary legitimate expenses an
dditional $750,000, and it must
me from the people, so as to con
.nue to the end the popular sub
:ription plan which we have adopt
To this statement, Mr. Morgenthan
dded that, although he considered
be sums already voluntarily sub
ribed as most encouraging, the com
ittee believes that an erroneous im
ression has gone out that, as the
tection of. Gov. Wilson seemed to be
ssured, money was not urgently
eeded. No matter how sure we are
f winning, Mr. Morgenthau pointed
ut the expenses are necessarily
eavy, and will be much greater
'm now on, for it is the intention of 1
le national committee to. keep up a 1
lost determined campaign and take
orhing for granted. To all of the
tates had been allotted the task of
ug a fixed sum. None of them
as yet reached the mark set. Ov
r-confidence on the part of the Dem
:rats was possibly hurting the com
tittee in a financial way, it was said,
ut, nevertheless a pretty steady flow
t money was expected from now on,
ad the committee believed that the
eople would meet the requirements.
he $105,000 from New York state
as practically unsolicited, said Mr. I
[orgenthau, and was an excellent
sample of what could be accomplish
The total of subscriptions as enter
on the books at national head
aarters was $298,750, and this came
-om 17,116 men and women. The
trgest single contribution since the
'cent list was published was by Su
reme Court Justice Jameb W. Ger-1
d, who gave $13,000. Samuel Un
rmyer, the attorney, gave $10,000,
ad there are several $5,000 suby
riptions.
Here is a list of some of the lar-ger
ntributors given out at the national
sadquarters:
$13,000-Justice James W. Gerard
ew York.
$10,000-Samuel Untermyer, New
ork.
$5,000-David N. Hyman, Abram
Elkes, New York; J. C. Mayo, na
onal committeeman, Kentuckyi
'alter S. Rogers. Chicago; Charles
.Smith, -Menash, Wisconsin.
$2,500-A. N. Jarvis, New York; C.
.Camden. Kentucky.
$2,000-Ralph Pulitzer, New York
$,000-George E. Guthrle and
ance McCormick,- Pennsylvania;
:hn T. Murphy, Montana; Thomas
.Lockwood, Buffalo; John Bord
en, Chicago; Judge Edward Man
louse, Texas; H. St. George
ucker, Virginia; Congressman Cer
tlus A. Pugsley, Peeksville; Rob
t B. Van Cortland, Amos Eno, Chas.
raus. New York.
%50--Samnuel A. Lewiston, Justice
organ J. O'Brien, William H. Horn
ower, Samuel A. Beardsley, New
rk; John Cadwalader, Pennsyl
Thoimas M. Mulry, nreident of the 'i
migrants' savings Bank, and Coun-5
-Clerk William F. Schneider, each
ve $250; Patrick F. McGowan. ,
r president of the board of alder
en. and Joseph Fox. president of the
alumbia 'bank, $200. and Borough
resident George A. McAnney, $50.
v. Dix, Dock Commissioner Calvin
'mpkins, Eugene A. Philbin and
aul J. Sachs were contributors of
100.
An alphabetical list of contribu
ms by State, including money sent
by individuals, follows:
Alabama, $5,036; Arizona, $53:;
Must Give Up Drink Habit.
In traveling safety is the first con
deration. To secure that for their
ttrons is the chief aim of steamship
td railroad companies. And these
mpanies learn~ by experience with
A result that improvements are con
antly being made in equipment to
sen the danger of collision and
her accidents. With the same ob
t In view companies are far more
reful as to the habits of their em
oyees than they used to be and reg
ations are becoming more numer- ~
is and more stringent. That it as c
should be. When one leaves by boat
-train for some given point he
ants to be as sure as possible that
Swill reach it without injury or
mccessary discomfort. The tray
ing public therefore welcomes ev
ything done to secure that end. e
r that reason It approves the action ia
the Delaware, Lackawann~a and fi
esteru railroad in insisting upon
tl abstinence for its trainmen.
stly experience, due especially to
cent awful wrecks on that and oth
lines, has led to this drastic order. 1
anyone thinks the order too drastic -~
thim remember that the lire of a rt
rson is of first imnportanen and
at life should not be Imperilled by
relessness, insuffcient precautions.
by wrong habits of officials and
n.,
The General Assembly would sur
ise Governor Blease If it adopts his a
geston and passes a law Brxing a
e passenger fares in this State. at c
- cents per mile when it meets. c
g to the general assembly you willt
Id the full story of the Darlington rr
at, Very' respectfully yors.,
. TRAHIY OF WAR
EIHE POLITICAL AFFAIRS I NIC
ARAUGA ARE FEARFUL.
'ith the United States Forces Aug
mented by Marines Quiet is Agai
at Hand.
A dispatch says Americans in Mar
gua, Nic., now know what a sici
aning tragedy a Central America
revolution is. They have passe
hrough a month of turmoil kAt
ust), witnessed threo battles and ex
perienced the horrors of a bombarc
,ent. They have seen the people c
.he city -panic stricken, women an
hildren killed; have borne the su
erings of hunger in a town be
eaguered and have had miraculuou
escapes from exploding shells an
bullets. Daily they saw hundreds c
ecruits marching out blithely, wit
rivas and laughter to fight, perhap
.n meet the death thousands of thei
ellows already had met.
The capital of Nicarauga in Augus
was the focal point of the revolutio
yf which Gen. Luis Mena, the de
osed secretary of war, was the hea<
the two military heroes of the ui
ising in 1909-10, which overthre'
elaya, were Emiliano Chamorro an
.uis Mena. Mena bec'ame minister c
war and organized the assembl:
which in October, 1911, elected hix
resident of the republic for the tern
eginning January 1, 1913.
Then the United States stepped in
:he American minister notifying Me
29. that his election was regarded a
premature and a violation of the pa<
nade with the representative of th
;nited States. Mena was depose
.ater as minister of the war and Gen
,hamorro was appointed commander
n-chief of the army. ? ena eventua:
y fled and armed the Liberals. Thu
>egan the revolution which reache
te climax in the bombardment c
on-combatants--a violation of a
he morals even of the republica c
entral America, except in the cas
>f Zelaya who bombarded Managu
.r the revolution of 1903.
It was no part of 'Mena's plan, how
-ver, to take Managua by assaul
en. Zeledon, some time minister c
war under Zelaya, was responsibi
or that when Mena lay helpless on
sick bed. The bombardment was o
onday although Zeledon had bee
warned that thousands of innocer
women and children were in te cit
Xll the day the savage shelling con
.inued, the shells exploding all ove
:he town. By a strange fatality wct
2en and children were the victim:
n one house a mother and her fon
laughters were wounded. A chil
sitting on a door step was cut in tw<
woman with her babe at her breas
-unning across the street, was struc
'y a shell and both were instanti
tilled. One hundred and thirty-si
women and children were killed'c
wounded. The escape of hundreds c
>tbers was miraculous.
The second evening of the borr
ardment a shell hit the presidentia
ouses and exploded in a room wher
he president and his cabinet were i
onference with General Chomorrc
3trangely enough, no one was in
ured. A shell exploded in the in
erior court of the house of an Amei
can official. Four American official
mud three servants were on eithe
ide of the court but none was hur
Lhrough Monday and Tuesday th
>attle raged, culminating in a shar
Lttack in the afternoon. Chamorr
iaved the day by lea-iing a fore
hich routed the attackers momer
:arily.
A battalion of 400 Arnerican ma
Ines under Maj. Butler reached 'Mat
:gua from Panama the following day
[heir presence probably prevente
Eother attack. The attempt to tak
he capital and thuoacapture the gos
,rnment having failed, the scene a
"ar was shifted.
trkansas, $2,809; California, $2,
'41; Colorado, $1,090; Connecticu1
11,166-; Delaware,-$56; Florida, $1,
125; Georgia, $1,808; Idaho, $39; Il
inols, $15,453; Indiana, $1,145; Ic
vn, $1,832; Kansas, $324; Kentuck3
;2,523; Louisiana, $5,465_; Maine
;469; Maryland, $2,502; Massachu
etti, $3,039: Michigan, $1,433; Min
tesota, $1,136; Mississippi, $1,286
dissouri, $9,470; Montana, $1,919
'ebraska, 3,324; Nevada, $2; Nei
fampshire, $78; New Jersey, $7,012
iew Mexico, $503: New York, $105,
:85; North Carolina, $4,766; Nort]
)kota, $761; Ohio, $1,901; Oklaho
na, $2,224; Oregon, 1,551: Pennsyl
snia, $19,516; Rhode island, $123
outh Garolina, $3,779; South *Da
ota. $213; Tennessee, $1,981; Tex
s, $4,592; Utah. $59: Vermont, $31
irgnia, $3.402; Washington, $5,
24; West Virginia. $1,741: Wiscon
n, $6,125; Wyoming, $624.
The District of Columbia has sen
:,156, the Phillipine Islands, $10
~anama, $25; Canada, $105.
Anonymous subscriptions amount
d to $4,733. and there was $2S88
urned over to the committee by for
er National ehairman Herman Rid
r as the surplus from the fund o
00,000 for the national conventiot
t Baltimore.
The total is $280,069. It does no
clude about $20,000 since receive<
v the national committee, includini
ne check of $1,000 from Nevala.
Mr. 'orthenthau explained tha
ere would be a heavy additional ex.
ense from now on because of thc
rge number of speakers to be sen
ut to the close of the campaign. Thc
isbusements made se far do not in
ude heavy bills for literature whici
as been distributed all over th<
ountry. The expenses of Gov. Wil,
nn on his tours have been paid bI
he national headquarters.
Mr. Morgenthau did not know jus1
hat they amounted to, but said thai
ey were being kept down as low as
ossible. He understood the private
ar the grovernor was using cost only
n extra $45 a day, har'dly more that
te cost of an automobile. The ex
enses of the headquarters in New
'ork and Chicago combined amoun1
1 approximately $7,000 a week.
Mr. Morgenthau said that he did
t doubt that the people of the coun
- would make quick response, andi
ile it needed the funds badly. the
nance committee was not worrying
Rolla Wells, national treasurer hadl
is to say: "It is true that we need
oney. I never saw a campaign com
ittee that didn,t but, it is not true
tat we are stopped because of the
ick of it. We haven't discounted
ny bills as yet, and we haven't bor
wed any money."
Fifteen Million Bales Needed.
Bsiness men, traveling in the in
arest of cotton mills and visiting
tll centers in Europ'e as well as in
as country. agree in the conclusion
tat the world will need fifteen mail
on bales of cotton this year. Any
mount under that number will he
short crop. A fourteen million bn
rop should give us fine prices for
tton. Taking all reports as they
me In and putting thema together,
he indications are that fourteen
Illion bales will be raised this year,
ith the probability of runnlng half
millinn less.
BLEASE IS NOMINEE
LYON AND PEOPLES WILL RUN IN
SECOND RACE
TILLMAN RENOMINATED
- Calls on the Solicitors to Prosecute I
Al1 Frauds and the Question of
Safeguarding the Primary System
Was Generally Discussed by the
State Executive Committee.
I Cole L. Blease was declared the 1
nominee for Governor by. the State
Democratic executive committee
Tuesday afternoon, in a meeting at
s Columbia characterized by harmony
and good feeling.
B. R. Tillman was declared the
nominee for United tSates Senator.
s The nomination for the other offices,
r excepting Attorney-General, were an
nouncel, and a second primary to de
cide between J. Fraser Lyon and
Thomas H. Peeples, for Attorney
General, was ordered to be held on
:he 15th of October.
It was declared the sense of the
committee that all races yet to be
held In any counties ought to take
place at the same time the primary
!or Attorney-General is held.
:.Much discussion was had over a
proposition to call a State Convention
next year to revise the regulations
and rules of the party, but 'after full
discussion this matter was not acted
s on further than leaving it to the com
mittee, to be appointed by the chair
e man, to draft the suggested changes
d.nd report back to the full commit
.ee before January 1, 1912.
After the report of the sub-com
mittee investigating the election and
t the committee on- tabulation, Mr. R.
W. Shand, representing Judge Ira B.
'ones, withdrew the latter's protest
and announced that they had no ex
ceptions to file and no further argu
e :nent to make. .
a The contest by Messrs. Dial and
Talbert, in the matter of United t
States Senatorships, was dismissed on
motion of Mr. Greer. Neither of
hese gentlemen was present. t
e Stress was laid by member after a
a member on the necessity of throwing
Tome adequate safeguards around the
primary and of the widespread dis-. f
content with the present lax method
f condiucting the elections. 'l'e sug
gestion to call a State Convention
r next year to act on this ma'cer was
favored by several, among them Mr.
'r. S. Blease, but was passed over and
no action taken.
A resolution that the solicitors of
the various circuits be requested to
)rosecute cases of violation of the
primary laws was adopted.
The state Democratic executive
committee was called to- order at
r noon, in the library of the State
louse, with a full attendance, several
of the members being represented by
- nroxies. . A large number of specta
tors were present and occupied seats
e in the library. United States Sena
tor B. R. Tillman, national commit
teeman and ex-officio member of the
- State committee, was present and sat
with the committee.
- Mr. J. E. McDonald, of Winnsboro,
s resigned as Presidential elector att
r large, because he Is a member of the
nublic works commission of Winns
e boro, Mr. J. J. McMahon was elected
as elector at large by acclamation.
a Then came the report of the corn
e m~ittee on tabulating the returns, as
- follows:
OFFICIAT TABULATION.
For Governor.
.R~lease.. .... .........72,043
3 Puncan.. .. ...............2,166
e Jones.. .... .... .......66,548
f Total ...... .......140,757
? Lieutenant-Governor.r
- Chartes A. Smith .. .. .. ..139,9 40
- Secretary of State.
Rt. :3. McCowan. .. .. ....140685
- Comptroller-General.
A W. Jones.. .... .......139,472
State Treasurer.
3. T. Carter.. .. .... .....89,702
D f. W. McLaurin.. .. ......49,805
Total.. .... .........139,507
Adjiutant-General.
-W. W. Moore.. .. .......140421
State Superintendent of Education.
-J. E. Swearingen .. .. .. ...139,828
Attorney-General.
I. R1. Earle.. .... ........16,404
B. B3. Evans.. .... ...... ...12,191
3. F. Lyon.. .. .. .. ....5.1
T. H. Peeples.. .. .........46,545 ,
Total.. .... ...... ..1.39,612.
Railre-ad Commissioner.
Tomes Cansler.. .... ......42,859
.iohn G. Richards Jr... ... ..70.896
1 H. Wharton.. .... ......26,241
Total.. .... .........139,996
-Commissioner of Agriculture.
P.. J. Watson.. .... .....138,604
SOLICITORSHTIPS. [
First Circuit.
P. T. Hildebrand..........6896
Second Circuit.
R. L. Gi'uter.. .. .. .. .... 9,931
Third Circuit.
P. H. Stall.. .. ............4,146
T. H. Tatum.. .... ......3,873
Total.. .... .....--....-. 8,019
Fourth.Circuit.
. M..Spears.. .... ......6,412
T I. Rogers.. .... .... ...1,598!
G. K. Laney.. ............2.812
: Total.. .... ..........10,822
Fifth Circuit.
t4
W. H. Cobb.. .... .........8,541
Sixth Circuit. c
JK. Henry.. .... .... .... 6,240
. H. Foster.. .. ...........4756
Total.. .... .... .....10,996 c:
Severth Circut-Second Prix:-tary.
. C. Otts.. .... ........ 6.847
A. E. Hill............. .7.66 '
I t
Total.. . ... ...... ... 14,413 u.
Eight Circuit.
R. A. Cooper.. ............9642 e
Ninth Circuit.
. E. Puerifoy.. .. . ... .... 9,642 ti
Tenth Circuit.
IP. A. Bonham.... .... ...17.440
. M. Daniels.. ............6528 i
Total...............23,968 C
Eleventh Circuit. t
'B. Timmnerman. .. .. .. ... 8,104 ~
T welfth Circuit.
W1. H-. Wells... .. .. . . ...547 tl
L. M. Gasque.. .. .. .. .... 3,959
Total . ..... ...... ...11.506;T
Uted' States Senator-.s
N. Ti. Dial..... ............28.89 ti
.T W7. Talbert.... .. .. .. . . 789iC
3. Rt. Tillman. .. .. .. .. ..73.630 ai
Iil
Total.. .... .........140,2081w
Congress.
First rWstrict--Legare. 9,111; Lar
isr. 4.A54. C<
Ceond Dfstrict-Byrnes, 10,547; 1u
Thirr1 Distrit-Aiken. 16,6850; Ev- ti
WOUND PROVES FATAL
s. PICKENS N. GUNTER DIED
ON MONDAY EVENING. -
Iugr C. Long, Dr. O. B. Poriwood
and Hayes Gunter Are Al in the
Aiken Jail.
The State's correspondent writing
rom W agener says Mr. Pickens N.
lunter, president of the Bank of
Vagener and an extensive planter,
ied Monday night at 7:45 from the
ffects of a gunshot wound inflicted
ast Saturday afternoon by Hugh C.
.,ong, intendant or Wagenor and rep
esentative-elect from Aiken county.
.ong, in company with two consta
les, escaped a violent mob, and is
tow in the jail at Aiken with Dr.
). B. Portwood and Hayes Gunter of
Vagener, who were lager arrested on
warrants charging them with being
.ccessories to the shooting; which has
esuited fatally.
The death of Pickens Gunter has
,een hourly expected since he was
hot. The local physicians and three
t geons frcm Columbia, who attend
:d him, held out absolutely no hope
f his recovery. "How is Pickens
-unter?" was the question on the lips
I eve~y citzen of Wagener. The late
Ir. Gunter s as a -man of consider
.ble means who lent himself to every
aoement for tae welfare of Wage
ter.
He established the Bank of Wage
Ler, was associated in other local
:mnmercial enterprises, and owned
wo large farms. His fellow citizens
ield him in the highest esteem. He
vas 43 yea.s of age and had lived in
Vagener all his life. Mr. Gunter
eaves a wife and three children, two
aughters and one con. Three.broth
rs, Dr. Wiliam Gunter of Gaffney,
)r. N. 0. Gunter of Wagoner and Dr.
amuel Gunter of Alabama, survive
Lim.
in Wagener Monday it was difficult
o Imag'ne that a vengeful mob could
tave inaugurated a reign of terror
here last Saturday night, defying
heriff Raborn of Aiken County and
orcing him to resort to a ruse to
et Hugh.-C. Long, the intendant of
he town, who wounded the late Pick
-ns Gunter. to fail. The little town
has busily quiet Monday. It is true
bat groups of men bn the public
quare were still discussing the shoot
ug, the eye-witnesses and the near
ye-witnesses found ready audiences,
or the affair stirred the surrounding
runtry to its depths. The only visi
'le signs left by the mob were the
'i oken show windows in the ofice of
he Edisto News, of which Hugh C.
.ong was editor.
It was openly stated in Wagener
hat the sole reason for Long's es
:ape Saturday night was the fact that
ie took refuge in the house of his
Leighbor, Henry Gardner. - Consid
:ration for GMrs. Gardner, ad invalid,
3 said to have prevented the mob
rom storming the house and drag
;ing Long out at any cost. The house
a which Long lived since coming to
v agener Is about a hundred yards
lown the same street from the home
f Mr. Gardener, in which be took
'efuge after hurriedly leaving the
cene of the shooting.
Mr. Gardener's house is in a cot
on field on the outskirts of Wagener.
ong and the two constables who ac
ompanied him must have spent some
ense moments In the open field af
er they left the house, guarded by
he mob Saturday night, before they
ecached the comparative shelter of
ho woods about a quarter of a mile
istant and started on their long
ralk for the jail in Aiken. The ex
sting conditions in Wagener last Sat
rday night were epitomized by a
[away-lipped strippling of the town
rhen he said to-day, "Everybody had
em er gun."
The causes which led to the dif5
:ulty between Hugh C. Long and
'ickens N. Gunter are buried in a
nuddle of local politics and were not'
all related to the question at issue
ast summer in the State primary.
Zr. Long came to Wagener In Sep
ember 1911, -started The Edisto'
ews to boost primarilly the move
eaet _for a new county with Wagener
or Its court house town. He moved
a Wagener from Bennettsville but a
itive of North Carolina. He is
.n attorney,, a man of some parts
ad a forceful speaker.
Mr. Long was elected intendant of
Vagener and ran for the legislature'
st summer. It was during thle lat
er campaign that the situation in
V.agener became acute. Long was
arned not to return to the town, af
er he was elected to the House in
he second primary, but did so last
e~dnesday a week when his. oppon
nt from Wagener for the House, 3.
.Lester Busbee, had been declared
lected in the third primary.2
Accounts of the affair between Mr.
unter and Mr. Long last Saturday
iternoon differ In several particu
'rs. Hayes Gunter, distantly -related
>t!'e late Pickens 'N. Gunter, was
rested on a warrant charging him
i kv~'ing a share In it. Dr. 0. B.
orta ood w'as arrested on a .similar
:arge. The facts in the case will
t he known until after the coron
's inquest.
A telegram received by The State
*w. hy night from Bennettsville
ad that the many friends of Hugh
ong in Marlboro county regretted
ie affair in Wagener and that sey
ral hundred prominent citizens of'i
de county where he formerly made
is home would gladly certify to his
igh character.
I'TLER'S SENTENCE COMMUTED.
ife Imprisonment Instead of Elec
trocution to be Fate of Negro.
The Governor Tuesday commuted
>life imprisonment the sentence of
eath imposed on lsiah Butler, the
harleston negro, recently convicted
i Charleston on a charge of attempt
'I criminal assault. Butler was un
er sentence to die in the electric
hair Wednesday. The sanity com
ti:son appointed to examine Butler
~ported to tne Governor that he was
a imbecile and Irresponsible at the
rehe committed the crithe for
t1ich he was sentenced to 'death,
r. acting on this report, the Gov
Sor commuted the sentence to lire
or-rrisonmnent in the State Peniten
ary.
The reports sent out from this city
st week and published !n The News
':d Courier about hazing at Clemson
olege were fully justified by the
lk heard here on the streets. There
'ims to have been no grounds for
t reports but it was surely assert
here by responsible people that
rc had been several cases of severe
zing at Clemson College in which
ran geburg boys were the victims.
he later contradiction of the hauing
oies does not change the fact that1
e reports sent out by The News and
,rier correspondent were currenti
id were being discussed generally
this city, and in our judgment1
as a legitimate item of news.
The State Democratic Executive
>mmittee Is called to meet in Co
meia on next Tuesday, when final'
tion will be taken in reference to
e governor's race in~ the nrimary.
REPUBLICANS'
EXTRAVAGANCE
Government Cost More Than
Doubled Under Roosevelt. '
DEMOCRATS' GREAT RECORD
a
Startling Figures Which Show That a
the Cost of Our National Existence i
and the High Cost of Living Must o
Be Reduced.
Under a proper downward revision t
of the Republican tariff schedules the
people of the United States would save a
;2,o0o,000,000 each year, or over $100 e
per family on manufactured goods
alone.
President Taft's vetoes of the wool
tariff bill and the steel tariff measure
passed by a Democratic house COST
THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED
STATES ABOUT $650,000,000 PER t
ANNUM.
The cost of conducting the federal
government MORE THAN DOUBLED
between the close of President Cleve
land's second administration (Demo
cratic) and the beginning of President t
Roosevelt's second -administration (Re.
publican).
As the DIRECT RESULT OF HIGH r
REPUBLICAN TARIFF , SCHED-.
ULES the people of the United States
pay a tax FROM NINE TO SEVEN
TY-EIGHT PER CENT on food and
ordinary household articles used in the
home by every family, rich and poor.
The total cost of running the federal
government in 1860 was $55,000,000.
The amount appropriated at a single
session of the Sixty-first congress for
the fiscal year 1911-$1,027,133,446.44
was more than double the amount
$954,496,055.13-appropriated for the
fiscal years 1897 and 1898 at both see
sions of the Fifty-fourth congress, the
last congress of the second Cleveland a
administration.
Only eight years elapsed between the r
close of the second administration of 1
-President Cleveland and the beginning
of the second administration of Presi
dent Roosevelt and yet the amount ap
propriated during the four years of the
latter - $3,842,203,577.15-was more
than double that appropriated In the
four yeais Mr. Cleveland was at the
helm-viz, $1,871,59.857.47.
For 1910, the last fiscal year provid
ed for in congress under Jresident
Roosevelt, the highwater mark in ap- r
propriations-$1.044,401,857.12.- was 1
reached. --
President Taft's estimate to the last
session of congress for government
support for the fiscal year was $1,068,
648,026.55.
In other words, governmental en
penes for the FOUR YEARS of Presi
dent Cleveland's administration (Dem
ocratic) were only $830,861,551.92 more t
than President Taft's (Republican) es
timate of the amount necessary to cov
er the expenses of ONE YEAR of
President Taft's administration.
Congressman John J. Fitzgerald of
New York, a Democrat and chairman
et the committee on appropriations, in
addressing the house Aug. 26, 1912. on
the subject of appropriations said,
"Thoughtful men have watched with
alarm th rapd increaein the cost of
government in the United States." Hec
further said that two causes seem re
sponsible for many present evils: j
"One, the UNFAIR AND UNJUTST
SYSTEM OF TAXATION by which c
an undue share of income by those I
whose circumstances in life are not *
cnsidered more than reasonably com
fortable is taken through our customs
laws for the support of our govern
mnt; the other, the difficlty or inabil
Ity to readjust our system of taxation
and to remove many taxes from the i
necessaries of life, so long as the GOY- z
ENMENT IS EXTRAVAGANTLY I
CONDUCTED, or the instrumentali- s
ties provided for the conduct of the I
public service are either ineffiient or
are not utilized so as to render thet
most effective and comprehensive re
sults."
Mr. Fitzgerald then called attentih
te the fact that the Democratic party J
pledged itself If intrusted with powera
to do two thingu-REDUJCE 'WAR!F? t
DUTIES AND RETRENCH PUB- 1I
LIC EXPENDITURES by eliminating t
waste In alnluitration and the abolk '
Uis of useless, inexcusable offces.
3
The Republicans talk about tariff b
maision, and yet when a Democratic D
house in fulfilling Democratic promisesD
to the people reduced the tariff, a Re- c
publican president vetoed the measure.
By their works shall ye know them."
Democrats in every state of the
Union should organize and prepare
Br polling a record breaking vote Nov.
. Be It remembered that no matter b
how certain victory seems, overeed tl
ece Is always dangerous. * b
Is there any reason why the Doe' h
rato party should go out of existence
simply because Mr. Roosevelt has tab b
en up the Progressive measures adopt. r
Od by the Democrats eighteen yearn
go?-W. 3. Bryan.
Mr. Roosevelt stood as a guaranito b
or Mr. Taft. Mr. Bryan says, "Nowe si
vhen Roosevelt has failed so utterly t1
I his judgement of men, I ask cani he u
pas correct, judgment on himself?""
C
CHARLESTON FLEET ARRIVES.
b
I'reoFlotilla GetstoNro 5
Ahead of Storm.
The naval torpedo flotilla bound e:
rom Charleston, S. C., to join tue f
aval rendezvous at New York, arriv
d Tuesday at the Norfolk navy yara,
just ahead of the severe storm sweep
ing the coast. The little vessels, there ir
ta "brushing up" prior to sailing s
or New York, are the Stockton, Tin- h:
ey, Thornton, Shubrick, Delong, v:
ahigren, Craven, and McDonough- ri
ll are torpedo boats except the Mac- o
oough, a destroyer. a
di
From thousands of pulpits in all ti.
~arts of the United States, fake cures!P
or consumption will be exposed and f0
lenounced on Tuberculosis Day, Oc- t<
ober 27. This is part of the pro- c
~ram for the movement announced by
he National Association for the Stu- fe
y and Prevention of Tuberculosis. wi
Innocent blue eyes, cherubic faces ti<
Lnd sweet voices are not always the
ttward and visible signs of an In
AIRMEN WERE KILLED
WO UNITED STATES ARMY MEN
WERE THE VICTIMS.
be' College Park Military Flying
Field is Again the Scene of a Fatal
Accident.
Two more lives were sacrificed to -
viation at the United States army
viation field, College Park, Md.,
ear Washington, late Saturday,
rhen an army aeroplane suddenly
ell 35 feet to the ground, instantly
illing Corporal Frank Scott and fa
ally injuring Second Lieut. Lewis C.
ockwell, who died a few hours later.
[undreds of people, -including fellow
imy officers attached to the aviation
chool, breathlessly witnessed the ac
ident. Wh'en they reached the scene
orporal Scott was found dead sev
ral feet from the wrecked machine,
rhile Lieut. Rockwell was nearby,
atally injured and unconscious. He
ra rushed to the Walter Reedy Br
ay hospital, where he died without
egaining consciousness. Lieut. Rock
rell had started up with Corporal
cott as a passenger to make a test
ight in his trial for a military' avia
Dr's license. They had been in the
lr about eight minutes, ascending to
height of -500 feet and then glid
2g down.
They were about 35 feet above the
round. At this point the aviator
urned the machine upward again
nd something went wrong. Instant
r the aeroplane buckled and crash
d to the ground, being reduced to a
.eap of wreckage. Scott was hurled
everal feet from the machine, while
ockwell lay a few feet away from.
Im. Brother officers, who witnessed
he accident, were at a loss to ac
ount for it. Many varying opinions
rere given. Capt. Chas. DeForest
handler, commanding officer of the
siation school, immediately ordered
board of inquiry to make an inves
gatlon.
When Rockwell was about to start
loft Capt. Hennessy approached him
ad requested that he be taken along
8 passenger.
"No, you are too heavy," was the
eply. So Corporal Scott went. Lieut.
ockwell was considered a careful
,viatdr. Three weeks ago he receiv
4 his certificate as civilian pilot, and
ince then had been experimenting
rith the various machines at the aer
arome.
Lieut. Rockwell was the fourth
ommissioned officer -of the United.
|tates army to meet death in an avia
on accident. The first was Lieut.
'homas F. Selfridge, killed at Fort
feyer, Va., several years ago while
lying with Orville Wright, who had.
t1s leg broken in the fall. The see
nd was Lieut. Geo. U. Muelly, killed
t San Antonio, Tex., May, 1911.
'he third was Lieut. Leighton W.
aslehurst, who, with his civilian in
tructor, A. L. Welch, was dashed to
he ground and killed on the same
leld at College Park, Md.
The death toll levied through acci
ents in aeroplanes of the army now
otal six.
GAVE HIS LEG TO SAVE CHILD.
ienerous Act of a Cripple Newsboy
- at Gaa-y, JIfl=l
At Gary, Indiana, a crippled news
oy lay on an operating table near a
irl whom he did not know and allow
d the surgeons to take 150 inches of
kin from his useless leg, graft it
to the badly burned .body of the
irl and then amputate his leg. The
oy, William Rugh, never had hea:,1
f the girl, Ethel Smith, 18 yea:s
Id, until' he read an acteunt of a
itorcycle accident whicn told that
he was so badly burned thant death
ras certain unless a Iarse amoibnt of
ealthy skin could be grafted onto
.3 lady..
'ify 'eg was useless, neve' h;-a
en any good to me, so I offered td
'a *i Oup to save this girl's 1ife'
rnq 'he boy's explanatior 'f why. * e
:iade the- sacrifice. When it became
:nown Rugh had made auch an offer
general protest went up. led by the
rl's mother. Letters came from all
ver the country advisin; against
te nyperation.
Seeing her daughte: gradually
earing death's door Monday, the
other reluctantly annouance-1 she
ould agree to the unusual operaticr..
~rrangements were quicii made,
nd Tuesday the surgeoas removed
te skin from the uselers bu; healthy
is of the boy and oa'ehe I it .'nto
te girl. The operation also caused
ostponement of a we-Idinlg. Dr. J,
SCraig, srgeon in sha-ga, was to
ave beeni married Todld; t., Miss
ary Arnold of Lebanon, Pa. When
e learned the operation was made
ossible by the mother .qalving her
rotest be hurried to Gary and offi
iated.
.WIPE OUT ENTIRE FAMILY.
lye Persons Are Drowns in the
Pigeon River.
Near Toronto, Ontario, five mem
ers ot one ramily were drowned in
ie Pigeou ri iver -Monday, the victims
ing William Mc~affery, of Toronto,
iles manager of the Canadian Gen
al Electric company, his mother,
is wife, and two children.
A 14 pound muscalonge which Lad
en hooked by Mr. McCaffery was
sponsble for the deaths of the fam
y. The McCaffery party started ouit
ia canoe down the Pigeon river in
est of muscalonge. When they did
at return toward evening, Chas. Mc
affery, father of the drowned man,
ecame alarmed and . organized a
sarching party. Seven miles. down
ie river the canoe, floating bottom
p was found. Dragging operations
ene commenced and all the bodies
ere recovered.
Clutched in the hands of Mr. Mc
affery was a line and on the hook
as a 14 pound muscalonge. The
g fish was still alive and thrashed
Le water violently as he was drawn
.The coroner said there was no
yubt that in the efforts of Mr. Mc
ffery to get the fish In thie boat the
noe was overturned ani he ana his
mily perished.
Paint Your Wire Fence.
The practice of painting wire fenc
g is by no means as common as it
ould be. Repeated experiments
Le shown that even the best of gal
.ized wire Is Improved and its pe
ad of usefulness extended by a coat
paint. The cost is very slight,
out one cent per rod. The main
ficulty is to get a kind of paint
at will work successfully over wire.
'rits that prove very satisfactory
r buildings are not always suited
r this class of work. A basic
rome green paint is recommended
some but in general we would ad
e the'man who wishes to paint his
ce to get the opinion of some one
ec understands the paint business
roughly before making his select
What every country needs is a dIs
ginhed cMtizenshzin